Your net foragings. The scum which accumulates on the surface of your inbox. The froth on the drunken face of the world. The gorgeous spraint of the massmind. Bring it all hither.

(Note that news stories and Things Of Interest now have a separate home in the “NewStrange” thread. This right here is where we present anything that would be fundamentally valueless, if it weren’t so clearly brilliant.)

[Note: I spotted a new thread already started downlist. Feel free to transfer formerly-posted things from there to here. Going to be getting back on top of timings round here this week - have successfully cleared my desk a little.] ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339563#Comment_339563Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:19:19 -0500Woodswitch on your speakers! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339570#Comment_339570Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:35:18 -0500Ben Gwalchmai

Even if this is from a fake news story, I like that Bruce is now a meme.He's even ripping on his own action-hero-history in new Sky Broadband adverts in the UK. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339573#Comment_339573Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:06:54 -0500FoamheadRedheaded donors are being turned away at sperm bank

Redheads might have more fun but it seems there is an overabundance of them.That is if one goes by the view of the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International, in Denmark.It has announced that it is turning away red-haired donors because there is a lack of demand for their "product".Its director, Ole Schou, has said no to all Scandinavian types, not just the redheads "because we simply have too much in our stock."

I didn't know anything about the Tor Project, and they don't have an FAQ for idiots, but it seems like a good idea. I think a lot of people will find it baffling and just ignore it though. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339671#Comment_339671Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:11:00 -0500Cat Vincent
Michael Fassbender to star in film biopic of Manchester's beloved Frank Sidebottom.

Hilariously, noted pop culture site The AV Club describe Frank as a "rock star"... which is like describing Bez as a ballerina.

There's one story that deserves to be told, involving a neighbor's camel, cream cheese sandwiches, and a sheepskin coat. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339732#Comment_339732Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:55:18 -0500RenThingBut all of that is not this POS they'll be releasing.

This? This is going to be a god damn travesty. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339733#Comment_339733Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:55:39 -0500RenThing
how much would you spend for a bottle of space whiskey? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339736#Comment_339736Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:15:32 -0500twentythoughts
Real-life Bert and Ernie.

One narrative follows Miss Monde 1984/Miss Canada (Carole Laure), who wins a contest of the "most virgin"; her prize is the marriage to a milk industry tycoon (John Vernon). However, following his degrading puritanical introduction to intercourse, she vents her intention to leave to her mother-in-law who, at that point, nearly has her killed. The family bodyguard (bodybuilder Roy Callender) takes her away, further humiliates her, and finally packs her in a trunk bound for Paris. She finds herself on the Eiffel Tower, where she absently meets and has intercourse with a Latin singer, El Macho (Sami Frey). The sexual act is interrupted by touring nuns who frighten the lovers into penis captivus. In her post-coital shocked state, she is adopted into an artist community led by Otto Muehl, where she finds affectionate care. The commune practices some liberating sessions, where a member, with the assistance of the others, goes through a (re)birth experience, cries, urinates and defecates like a baby, while the others are cleaning and pampering him. Later she is seen acting for an obscene advertisement, in which she is naked, covered in liquid chocolate.

The second narrative involves a woman, Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) piloting a candy-filled boat down a river, with a large papier-mache head of Karl Marx on the prow. She picks up the hitchhiking sailor Potemkin (Pierre Clémenti), though she warns him that if he falls in love, she will kill him. He ignores her many suggestions for him to leave and their relationship evolves. Eventually, in the state of love making, she stabs him to death in their nidus of sugar. She also seduces children into her world of sweets and revolution. She is eventually apprehended and arrested by the police who lay down plastic sacks containing the children's bodies on the riverside, implying they too have been killed by Planeta. The film ends with the children, unseen by the others, being reborn from their plastic cocoons.

Welp, those were the 70's...

ETA : you can apparently find the whole movie on Youtube or Vimeo, if, y'know, that's your kind of thing... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339840#Comment_339840Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:06:18 -0500MoracAnother gem: Aquaman's Song of Heroism ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339841#Comment_339841Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:15:43 -0500twentythoughtsI knew that "Brave and the bold" was supposed to be a good show, but if it's on this level, I might just have to look it up. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339856#Comment_339856Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:54:21 -0500Cat Vincent
Brave and the Bold: the meta-commentary in the Paul Dini-written Batmite episodes is vicious and hilarious. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339863#Comment_339863Sun, 09 Sep 2012 07:04:19 -0500Alan Tyson
Tom Bombadil suddenly becomes the most interesting character in The Lord of the Rings. And, potentially, the most frightening. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339890#Comment_339890Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:51:23 -0500Purple WyrmOh please. Everybody knows that Tom Bombadil is the Witch King of Angmar. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339917#Comment_339917Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:46:17 -0500johnjonesNah, I much prefer the take on it from Alan's link. The Witch-king theory sort of ignores the question of why didn't the Witch-king just kill the hobbits or let them die and then take the Ring. Plus, if Bombadil is the Witch-king, there's no new story space because the Witch-king is gone by the end of the trilogy. On the other hand, if Old Tom is some other potent evil, you have the potential for future stories during the Age of Men. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339942#Comment_339942Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:36:10 -0500Purple Wyrm
wanted to die! Bombadil was the suppressed, decent side of his personality who hated what he'd become, and so not only didn't kill the hobbits, but helped them obtain the very weapons that would be used to strip his invulnerability on the Pelennor Field!

(It's times like this I get nostalgic for Uncle Warren's reign of terror. By now he would have stormed in yelling about "fucking elf stories" and threatening us all with the arse eels :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339944#Comment_339944Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:55:29 -0500Soviet Rocket No. 9
I don't know if this got posted yet, but the band "The XX" shared their new album with one fan, and tracked around the world how many people it spread to. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339948#Comment_339948Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:52:34 -0500Foamhead
Special Monopoly edition celebrates Alan Turing's life ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339952#Comment_339952Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:55:47 -0500johnjonesOkay. That's fine. It's at least as valid an interpretation as the other one. Ultimately, this argument has no relevance because neither of us own the character. This is really about personal preference. My preference is forward. It's next. It's "what happened after that?" As far as I can tell, everything published by Christopher Tolkien focuses exclusively on the past of the Middle-Earth. The War of the Ring is like World War II for American History classes ("Then Japan surrendered. The End. Everything after that is current events. Go read a newspaper.") So, yes, the idea that Tom Bombadil is a future story-generating threat to Middle Earth is a cool thing to me. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339957#Comment_339957Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:49:18 -0500Purple WyrmOh absolutely. I'm not so much challenging the Loose Connections interpretation because I dislike it or prefer the other one as I am just debating geeky things for the sake of debating geeky things. What else is the net for after all? (apart from porn and cat pictures obviously...) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=339966#Comment_339966Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:03:03 -0500JiveKitty
50 Cent dubbed with Jehovah's Witnesses want Deaf People to Stop Masturbating

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340015#Comment_340015Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:53:32 -0500FoamheadNone of my beeswax, I know (moobs don't count here), and I only mention it from the PoV of having a few family members (largely female) who've had breast reduction surgery, but boobs bigger than the owner's head...? Analyse and discuss. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340018#Comment_340018Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:26:02 -0500texture

Christ this is addictive. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340166#Comment_340166Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:27:04 -0500oddbillIf anyone can get a 4, 5 or 6 on his I'll be impressed!

And yes, he acted in a movie and it is a relation solely through movies. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340168#Comment_340168Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:47:38 -0500hosidax
John Michael Montgomery's Bacon number is 4John Michael Montgomery and Wynonna appeared in Life's a Dance.Wynonna and Natalie Cole appeared in We Love Ella: A Tribute to the First Lady of Song.Natalie Cole and Laurence Fishburne appeared in Always Outnumbered.Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Bacon appeared in Mystic River. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340169#Comment_340169Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:53:58 -0500oddbillLooks like Harry Houdini is also a 4.

I love how his tool has reversed the game to what are the most, rather than least, degrees of separation you can find! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340175#Comment_340175Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:16:43 -0500Soviet Rocket No. 9Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anders Ek appeared in I Am Curious (Yellow).Anders Ek and Max von Sydow appeared in The Seventh Seal.Max von Sydow and Dianne Wiest appeared in Hannah and Her Sisters.Dianne Wiest and Kevin Bacon appeared in Footloose. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340176#Comment_340176Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:04:14 -0500a ethic whelpSonam Lhamo's Bacon number is 5

Sonam Lhamo and Neten Chokling appeared in Travellers and Magicians.Neten Chokling and Jamyang Lodro appeared in The Cup.Jamyang Lodro and Lhakpa Tsamchoe appeared in Milarepa.Lhakpa Tsamchoe and Brad Pitt appeared in Seven Years in Tibet.Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon appeared in Sleepers. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340185#Comment_340185Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:40:03 -0500vandalhandleShane Carruth's Bacon number is 4, actor/writer/director of primer

Matsunosuke Onoe's Bacon number is 5Matsunosuke Onoe and Enichiro Jitsukawa appeared in Jiraiya the Hero.Enichiro Jitsukawa and Denjirô Ôkôchi appeared in Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue.Denjirô Ôkôchi and So Yamamura appeared in Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki.So Yamamura and Clint Howard appeared in Gung Ho.Clint Howard and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13.

I have the perfect hangover for this right now. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340337#Comment_340337Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:42:50 -0500RenThingplease tell me that's just a joke. Please. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340346#Comment_340346Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:51:38 -0500screaming meatThat looks like the premise for a porn film that I could really get behind. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340350#Comment_340350Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:06:49 -0500shannon.gilly.3@RenThing @screaming meat The fairly graphic pose of the dinosaurs leads me to believe it's a joke, but during my time as an active evangelical christian, I heard more than a few hardline creationists make claims that were just as out there. ]]>
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Fandom Base: A Vote Against the Library is Like a Vote to Burn Books ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340363#Comment_340363Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:37:14 -0500Purple Wyrm
please tell me that's just a joke. Please.

I honestly have no idea. Poe's law anyone? :D ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340370#Comment_340370Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:47:26 -0500glukkakeThis is Typha Latifolia, commonly known as Cattail. Cattails are used in Latin America in both cooking and traditional medicin.

Rubbing the stem, causes the potassium and nitrogen to oxygenate within stored mitochondria chambers, leading to rapid expulsion of collagenous spaces between the xylem and the phloem.

The same effect occurs when the plant is subject to high levels of heat. This led to a disaster in Le Paz, Bolivia, 1981. Tens of thousands of Cattail stems were being kept in a massive warehouse when a heatwave caused rapid expansion. Over a hundred workers suffocated when the warehouse was suddenly filled by expanding cattails seeds.

Mind you, I found this on a forum post after google image searching that gif. ]]>
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__> I guess there is actually a technique to doing it well, he says he's never been able to get one to explode quite that much (oh god the euphemisms in this post). ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340403#Comment_340403Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:56:04 -0500vandalhandle

I really wish I knew about this sooner. I used to live next to a batch of cattails :| ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340444#Comment_340444Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:35:40 -0500Alan Tyson
This led to a disaster in Le Paz, Bolivia, 1981. Tens of thousands of Cattail stems were being kept in a massive warehouse when a heatwave caused rapid expansion. Over a hundred workers suffocated when the warehouse was suddenly filled by expanding cattails seeds.

So, I had a nightmare last night about that. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340446#Comment_340446Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:45:18 -0500Argos

LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.PHYSICS PRIZE: Joseph Keller [USA], and Raymond Goldstein [USA and UK], Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball [UK], for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail.MEDICINE PRIZE: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.

Maybe if you read the book backwards or something... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=340957#Comment_340957Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:35:07 -0500Wood
Resistance is futile. All sperm will be extracted"

Castration had a huge effect on the lifespans of Korean men, according to an analysis of hundreds of years of eunuch "family" records.They lived up to 19 years longer than uncastrated men from the same social class and even outlived members of the royal family.The researchers believe the findings show male hormones shorten life expectancy.

Is this the world's grumpiest cat? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341145#Comment_341145Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:25:58 -0500phill_seaIt was, weirdly, even more the stuff of nightmares. It was multiplicative, not additive; a parabolic curve of horror, if you will. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341152#Comment_341152Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:11:52 -0500magnusisasillyname

Not for any reason, other than he's a legend. :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341159#Comment_341159Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:33:04 -0500Argos
Rogue makes a beer using yeast strains found in their head brewer's beard ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341160#Comment_341160Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:42:20 -0500RenThingAROUND THE NET (Closes Oct 6th)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341161#Comment_341161
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341161#Comment_341161Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:43:22 -0500oldhatAlso, while talking with another beer person about it I managed to find a web site in which an artist extracted some yeast from her vagina in order to make a "goddess beer". This bugged me on a number of levels. Firstly, the yeast wouldn't be fermentable (made a bit more apparent by her saying she would be mixing it in with brewer's yeast), second (and here's the snob part) she was planing on using regular brewer's yeast. Would have used something much different. And...yeah, I'll stop.

" Somewhere between 7,000 to 4,000 B.C., in Mesopotamia, in the Kingdom of Sumeria, women invented beer. Early agriculture in the “fertile crescent” was centered around grains. Those grains, pregnant with possibility, became bread and, eventually, beer. Sumerian women were both the first brewers and the first gods of beer. By adding a trace amount of my vaginal yeast to regular brewer’s yeast, my “Original Pussy Beer” pays homage to beer’s ancient creators from “the cradle of civilization.” Woman is literally reunited with the beer.

Yeast, because it has been used for millennia, carries a great amount of symbolic weight. As a key ingredient to basic sustenance like bread and beer, yeast is an age-old, familiar and very powerful medium to work with. Food, and our complex relationship with it, is mythical; when we eat and drink, human happiness and sorrow, love and hate, heaven and hell are simultaneously displayed and represented. If beer is food, and food is life itself, then beer too is life itself.

Experimentation with these historic staple foods, in combination with my own body, helps to build a new artistic dimension: understanding through taste. To experience an art piece through taste is a two-pronged experience. The viewer has to make a simple decision – to ingest it or not. From this primal question new questions quickly arise: Is it socially acceptable to drink beer that includes even a trace amount of vaginal yeast? Is it natural? Is it kinky? Can a man drinking this beer still be macho? Why does it make such a difference when it comes to the human body?

It is these questions about society’s ever-increasing disconnect with the human body that I try to expose and learn about by feeding the viewer. By sharing my art in this way, I share my body and mind, inviting the viewer to have a conversation on a genuinely intimate level. Essence meets essence. The participants begin to understand me and I them.

"Art patrons had a choice of either boy’s or girl’s underwear to choose from. These intimate delicacies were deep-fried to order at each of the Fashion is Art events out of a street vendor’s cart....The objective was to lure people into literally ingesting (and digesting) a piece of art."

Nevermind the fact that human bodies are incapable of digesting textiles because we don't have the proper guy bacteria to do so. :| I'm all for post-modern art, but if you're going to use the body for it at least do some research beforehand. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341164#Comment_341164Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:59:55 -0500oldhatThe vagina beer not so much. Yuck factor aside I disagree with her choice of ingredients. Don't match up to the concept. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341166#Comment_341166Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:06:36 -0500oldhat
yes, it's a thing and it's drinkable).

I think mine would be... vodka >.> ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341187#Comment_341187Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:41:03 -0500Foamhead
awesooooome stage. Nothing against falling down juice, just I've never found a tipple I liked the taste of (not for lack of trying).

Like Kay, I'm way more inclined towards a good cup of tea, thanks to my mother getting me hooked when I was still womb-bound.

George Washington famously brewed it. James Madison purportedly sought to create a cabinet-level Secretary of Beer. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped make it legal to produce and sell (again) by championing legislation repealing Prohibition. Upon signing the bill, he reportedly said, "I think this would be a good time for a beer."As you may have heard, our current president likes his beer, too. Earlier this month, the Obama White House released two official recipes of its own in a blog post entitled "Ale to the Chief."

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341191#Comment_341191Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:59:22 -0500Purple WyrmIf people ask why I don't drink though, I tend to tell them I'm a violent drunk. That way I come across as slightly edgy and dangerous, rather than just being a boring killjoy :D

I don't drink tea or coffee either - but that's just because I don't like the taste. I suck down sugar free colas and energy drinks like there's no tomorrow though (I did try to cut down but the headaches... oh the headaches!) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341193#Comment_341193Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:20:54 -0500Michael WayneThis is Whitechapel, founded by the late great Warren Ellis. We drink beer. We eat meat. We are brilliant and unafraid and politically incorrect! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341202#Comment_341202Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:42:24 -0500RenThingIt was the moon. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341206#Comment_341206Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:42:31 -0500Alan TysonAs for conservatives preferring Sam Adams, what of those who aren't crazy about the Boston Lager (like me) but who love their seasonal beers (like me)? Where do the majority of us fall on the spectrum? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341209#Comment_341209Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:49:45 -0500oldhatFirst the Obama beer. American homebrewers, you can buy ingredient kits from Brooklyn Homebrew's shop for both the White House Honey Ale and the White House Honey Porter (honey, yeast, gypsum and priming sugar not included). I really really envy you. Also gives you a chance to look in to locally produced honey! When I pick up the odd bit of information I'll most likely be putting it up on the Thirsty Wench facebook page (sorry for the plug).

So now the io9 article.

all the beers on that list were American-style light lagers, which from a brewing perspective makes them, if not the exact same beer (we could argue about that) but all very, very closely related.

Not to mention they're mostly owned by the same company as well. I don't know. I'm going to look more in to it, but I'm always suspicious of surveys like this and wonder why they didn't seem to put in to account craft beers as well as seems to focus on the BREWERY as opposed to a specific beer from said brewery (As Alan said regarding Sam Adams). ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341212#Comment_341212Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:20:02 -0500dispophoto
Beer Wars? it gives a pretty insightful account of the American beery industry. a lot of the "craft" beers in the stores are owned by the same company. Leffe, for example, is now owned by Busch/coors/Miller (whichever one, i can't remember anymore) and so is Rolling Rock. Up here in Canada, our old standby, Keith's, (Maritimer here) is now owned by Busch, and here in Quebec, Unibroue (Makers of fine fare 'Maudite' & 'La Fin du Monde') is now owned by Sapporo. Luckily, it's easy to find smaller brewery beer in corner stores (deps, as they're called) here in Montreal, if only Quebec-centric. the really good Ontario (Beau's! Winter Beard!) and Maritime (Garrison!) beers are near impossible to find on this side of the "border". at least Ile de la Madeleine's beers are available in the city, although it can be a challenge (and pricey!) to find them sometimes. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341227#Comment_341227Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:42:53 -0500celan
Graphic images of a "celestial burial"You'll have to click through to see them because I choose to be kind to the faint of heart. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341252#Comment_341252Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:33:45 -0500Flabyo
Yesterday, a comic.

(warning, a little bit depressing...) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341264#Comment_341264Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:46:27 -0500oddbillRegarding the political beer spectrum chart, James Fallows, a journalist for the Atlantic who focuses on China and on Aviation, and a knowledgable beer enthusiast, had some good observations.

The key observation being:

not to be too catty or snooty about it, but how exactly does anyone tell most of these other beers apart?

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341277#Comment_341277Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:40:18 -0500nelzbub
I've not looked into much aeroponics myself, preferring an organic soil based approach. Have you seen anything about plasma lighting used alongside traditional HPS? I've been hearing great things about a product made by Gavita. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341298#Comment_341298Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:20:24 -0500Vornaskotti ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341304#Comment_341304Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:02:41 -0500GreasemonkeyI don't know much about plasma lights other than that they're very expensive (around $1000 to set up a 250W system). Right now I'm considering developing a custom grow cabinet business while I'm in Canada, building cabinets directly to people's size and space requirements. For that type of operation (1 to 6 plants, depending on cabinet size) I prefer a 250W MH for vegging and a 400W HPS for flowering, both running off a switchable ballast. It's easy on the electrical power (even with the added wattage for fans and pumps), and perfect for the small grower who just wants a decent smoke.

I'm interested in the new LED grow lights, too. They're extremely compact, they don't need a ballast, they don't get hot, and they use hardly any power.

"Using projection mapping onto street furniture, a dandypunk travels through various fantastical worlds, interacting with strange characters and treacherous landscapes, in the hope of unfolding the secrets and learning the techniques from the ancient book of "The Alchemy of Light"."

Now, I despise Glenn Beck and the tactics he uses, but you have to give it to the guy: when it comes to self-aggrandizing polemics, they guy sure knows his business. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341507#Comment_341507Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:44:57 -0500Jamie Heron
Here's the game version! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341515#Comment_341515Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:04:44 -0500Will Couper

Pink Floyd shows will be a thing in 400 years' time, the same way orchestras perform the work of Bach and Mozart now.

It's a thing already. There are multiple unrelated traveling Pink Floyd tribute bands that put on full fledged big venue shows. I have a friend who's only live music excursions are to go see Pink Floyd performed, and he is able to do his at least once or twice a year with different bands.

Also, @Hex - whoever was belly dancing inside that wookie deserves an award. It cannot be easy to make an abdominal undulation read that well from under a shag carpet suit! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341566#Comment_341566Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:16:37 -0500sneak046But instead of live musicians the Pink Floyd shows of the (not even that far distant) future will probably be holograms... ;-P

And speaking of Bellydancing I dunno if anyone has seen this: awesome bellydance/popping fusion ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341588#Comment_341588Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:25:36 -0500mister hexAgreed, and I would add The Beatles and possibly Elton John to the list of composers the Future will respect on the level of the Dead Germans.

@ sneak - *YOINK!* Awesome is RIGHT. I've made fun of mimes before and I don't usually go in for this kind of thing but that's worth seeing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341638#Comment_341638Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:05:13 -0500Alan Tyson
About four minutes in, you get what I can only describe as "Bluegrass Beatboxing." ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341653#Comment_341653Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:32:26 -0500StefanJhttp://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/dungeons-dragons-online/537989p1.html ]]>
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Will ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=341693#Comment_341693Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:09:48 -0500sneak046
USAF strategist wants us to become Kardeshev type-2 civilisation, says we should make billion year plans:

"It isn’t enough just to plan for two or 20, or even the fabled Chinese 100 year periods. We need to be thinking and planning on the order of billions of years. Our civilization needs inter-generational plans and goals that span as far out as we can forecast significant events."

Greetings to the people and parts of people that are reading this. Hi. This is Louis. I'm a comedian and you bought a thing from me. Well, I'm writing to tell You that there is a new thing you can buy on my website louisck.com. It's an audio standup set by not me but another comedian named Tig Notaro. Why am I selling someone else's comedy on my website?

Well, Tig is a friend of mine and she is very funny. I love her voice on stage. One night I was performing at a club in LA called Largo. Tig was there. She was about to go on stage. I hadn't seen Tig in about a year and I said how are you? She replied "well I found out today that I have cancer in both breasts and that it has likely spread to my lymph nodes. My doctor says it looks real bad. ". She wasn't kidding. I said "uh. Jesus. Tig. Well. Do you... Have your family... Helping?". She said "well my mom was with me but a few weeks ago she fell down, hit her head and she died". She still wasn't kidding.

Now, I'm pretty stupid to begin with, and I sure didn't know what to say now. I opened my mouth and this came out. "jeez, Tig. I. Really value you. Highly.". She said "I value you highly too, Louie.". Then she held up a wad of note-paper in her hand and said "I'm gonna talk about all of it on stage now. It's probably going to be a mess". I said "wow". And with that, she went on stage.

I stood in the wings behind a leg of curtain, about 8 feet from her, and watched her tell a stunned audience "hi. I have cancer. Just found out today. I'm going to die soon". What followed was one of the greatest standup performances I ever saw. I can't really describe it but I was crying and laughing and listening like never in my life. Here was this small woman standing alone against death and simply reporting where her mind had been and what had happened and employing her gorgeously acute standup voice to her own death.

The show was an amazing example of what comedy can be. A way to visit your worst fears and laugh at them. Tig took us to a scary place and made us laugh there. Not by distracting us from the terror but by looking right at it and just turning to us and saying "wow. Right?". She proved that everything is funny. And has to be. And she could only do this by giving us her own death as an example. So generous.

After her set, I asked Mark Flanagan, the owner of Largo (great club, by the way) if he recorded the set. Largo is set up for excellent recordings. He said that he did.

A few days later, I wrote Tig and asked her if I could release this set on my site. I wanted people to hear what I saw. What we all saw that night. She agreed. The show is on sale for the same 5 dollars I charge for my stuff. I'm only keeping 1. She gets the other 4. Tig has decided to give some of that to cancer research.

Tig, by the way, has since undergone a double mastectomy. She is doing well. Her doctors say her chances of survival are excellent. So she went there and came back. Her report from the frontlines of life and death are here for you to... Enjoy.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this kickstarter, but I do know I want that movie to be made. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342075#Comment_342075Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:48:40 -0500lampcommander

True Skin – A sci-fi short set in the not too distant future where augmentation is the way of life. For Kaye, still a natural, augmenting will help him keep pace in this now hyper-paced world. However, after acquiring an off-market prototype, Kaye quickly finds himself fighting not only for his own humanity, but something much larger.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342203#Comment_342203Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:40:19 -0500badbear
Further evidence that Bill Murray is becoming the living embodiment of Comedy: Bill Murray Likes to Call Kelly Lynch's Husband Every Time He Sees Patrick Swayze Having Sex With Her in Road House.

"Every time Road House is on and he or one of his idiot brothers are watching TV — and they’re always watching TV — one of them calls my husband and says [In a reasonable approximation of Carl Spackler], “Kelly’s having sex with Patrick Swayze right now. They’re doing it. He’s throwing her against the rocks.” [Away from the receiver.] What? Oh, my God. Mitch was just walking out the door to the set, and he said that Bill once called him from Russia."

(original AV club interview with Kelly Lynch here.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342209#Comment_342209Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:31:22 -0500twentythoughtsDuring my trip to Arkhangelsk recently, one of the TV channels was playing that Rocky movie where he fights that evil Russian superhuman guy. And even the bits that, in the movie, are said IN Russian, were dubbed into Russian. Without even muting the voices entirely. So you'd have someone in the movie say something in Russian, and then the dubbers would say the same thing again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342211#Comment_342211Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:05:10 -0500badbear
I love Rocky IV. The sheer audaciousness of the montage-ing in that movie is astonishing. Without it I swear the whole thing would be a half hour long, tops. I can't even imagine the added layer of greatness created by bad dubbing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342234#Comment_342234Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:44:12 -0500lampcommander

so i got a comment on one of my videos on youtube, which is an anti-smoking rap. the commenter said, "you didnt mention the part about how jesus christ will hate you". i replied, "what?". he replied "if you smoke, jesus will hate you". I looked at his channel. he has one video posted.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342236#Comment_342236Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:30:28 -0500lampcommander
This is his YouTube page, and he also started contributing to this video review blog. He's worked at Half Price Books for years, and I've personally seen his thousands of VHS tapes--boxes and boxes jam-packed with craziness like this:

That's one way to deal with a potential jumper. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342275#Comment_342275Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:49:57 -0500Purple Wyrm
Middle-earth in Film page...

In the 1970s John Boorman was contracted by United Artists to direct an adaptation that would have collapsed the entire [Lord of the Rings Trilogy] into a single film. [...] In the script by Boorman and Rospo Pallenberg, many new elements have been inserted or modified. Among other things, Gimli is put in a hole and beaten so he can retrieve the password to Moria from his ancestral memory, Frodo and Galadriel have sexual intercourse, Arwen is made into a teenaged spiritual guide with her role as Aragorn's love interest wholly transferred to Éowyn, and Aragorn’s healing of Éowyn takes place on the battlefield and given sexual overtones.

And then this: ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342284#Comment_342284Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:49:45 -0500WoodEverybody else take notes : this is how you use social media. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10820&Focus=342289#Comment_342289Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:44:21 -0500Will CouperAlthough, I think you got mixed up with Brass Eye where Simon Pegg played a paedophile who didn't fancy Chris Morris's character's son. He never appeared in Jam. Kevin Eldon played a rapist with a jealous wife.